[PD] New users and external path struggles

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

well, since this debate popped out, I can point to a deken issue on github
here: https://github.com/pure-data/deken/issues/156 - I had opened it a few
days ago, where I suggested a simple change that'd improve some of these
issues.

All I ask is that deken consistently suggests "user specific" standard path
at first, for all operating systems. As it already does, if the folder
doesn't exist, it can create it for you. So then newbies don't need to
learn "hacks" to make deken download to a reasonable option out of the box,
and it'd all work.

I get this might be too late in the game for the next release round the
corner, and I'm cool with that. Also, I've shown that IOhannes has big and
awesome plans for deken not in the far future... but anyway, I threw it on
the table ;)

cheers

2017-07-29 20:39 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:

> 2017-07-29 18:42 GMT-03:00 Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> Yeah. But why is unhiding necessary in the first place? From what I
>> understand, Deken suggests the first writable search path it finds, so
>> the user usually doesn't need to do anything at all but let Deken
>> download the external to the right place.
>>
>
> Sorry, again on it... "the right place" as of now, is different for each
> OS, so we don't really have a "Default" considered to be "the right/best
> place" for most cases.
>
> Moreover, besides the reasoning I gave that a visible folder is needed.
> For now, on Mac OS, if I want deken to download to the "user specific"
> folder, I need to do to this hidden secretive place and create the folder
> in the first place (no, it won't suggest it and automatically create it for
> me).
>
> cheers
>
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